Sam is a Vice President at Village Global. He has spent a decade at the intersection of data science, operations, and venture capital. Most recently he was a Visiting Partner at The House Fund, where he ran its AI Accelerator in partnership with OpenAI, Microsoft, and Databricks. He was also an Operations Fellow at Gigascale, the climate fund founded by former Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer, and previously ran ODX, On Deck's accelerator. Sam helped build and run Village's operations from 2019 to 2021 before returning in his current role.
I have always wanted to help people actualize their dreams. For me, a lot of the excitement in venture capital is taking bets on people at the earliest stage of their career and putting my energy behind them to help them build momentum into the next stages. I love humanity and the people that make it up and want to help scale how we support people taking bets on themselves.
I view my superpower as the intersection of two skills: a passion for evaluating and helping people mixed with a knowledge of how to build systems to do that at scale.
I love the graphic novel Daytripper, which is a quick and impactful read.
I love the outdoors, which includes ski mountaineering, hiking, climbing, running, or gardening. I also enjoy going to concerts, traveling to places that are easier to go to while young, and spending time with my wife and our Samoyed named Harper.
